Android Wear Review: Putting the Smartphone on Your Wrist

7/1/2014 2:04PM

Are the first Android Wear watches — the Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch — the remedy to pulling our phones out over and over? WSJ Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern reviews the first truly “smart” watches.

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